Monthly Archives: January 2004

Dubious Honor

Anything for a profit, right? Cadillac and Mercedes Benz are whoring themselves
to the rap industry, which promotes misogyny and gang violence. Great image, ain’t
it?

Cadillac,
Mercedes battle over hip-hop throne

“DETROIT, United States (AFP) – Move over Mercedes-Benz, Caddy is this month’s
king of cool, according to Americas trend-setting rappers and musicians.”

Big Brother Bush is Watching

It's not happening all at once, but it's happening. Perhaps that's what makes it so insidious. It's sneaking up on us.

Slouching toward Big Brother
By Bruce Schneier

"Last week the Supreme Court let stand the Justice Department's right to secretly arrest noncitizen residents. Combined with the government's power to designate foreign prisoners of war as 'enemy combatants' in order to ignore international treaties regulating their incarceration, and their power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without charge or access to an attorney, the United States is looking more and more like a police state."

Shame on You

Dirty habits thrive on secrecy. This pastor’s campaign to shame porn shops out of
business might help to shed some divine light on them.

Texas
Church Cards People Who Patronize Adult Stores

By Lianne Hart

“KENNEDALE, Texas – It’s 2:30 on a Thursday afternoon, and inside a windowless
adult video store a dozen people are perusing XXX-rated movie titles. Pastor Jim
Norwood surmises this because he has photographed the customers’ cars in the parking
lot, carefully adjusting his digital camera so that each license plate is in focus.”